Talent Calculator

We have created a series of PvP Talent Calculators, which you can browse here. We also have a database of PvP Talents organized by spec and class.

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There are a lot of exciting changes coming for PvP in Legion, and today, we'd like to take the opportunity to share some more details on some of those changes! The Honor System In Legion, Honor and Conquest will no longer be currencies that you use to buy gear from vendors. Instead, characters who have reached maximum level will earn Honor Points from competing in Battlegrounds or Arenas, similar to how lower-level players earn Experience Points. As you earn Honor Points, you will increase your Honor Level, up to the maximum Honor Level of 50. Along the way, you'll earn a number of rewards, including Gold, Artifact Power, and a brand new set of PvP-only Honor Talents.Honor Talents are a special set of Talents that are only active when a player is in a PvP instance (such as a Battleground or Arena) or otherwise engaged in PvP combat, and work in addition to your normal Talents. They are unlocked, one at a time, as your Honor Level increases. So, by Honor Level 10, you'll have one option available in each row, but as you continue to increase your Honor Level, more and more options will become available for you to change up how you approach PvP gameplay.For example, a Windwalker Monk who has reached Honor Level 10 can choose Alcance incapacitante, which lets them use Tiger Palm at range to dash toward and slow their target. Or, a Restoration Druid who has reached Honor Level 46 can take Raíces profundas, which makes their Entangling Roots spell no longer break when the target is damaged.Which Honor Talents you choose can have significant impact on how you play your character, and allow you to tailor your abilities to fit with the type of PvP content you're participating in, or even who you're playing with! Kicking It Into Gear So, if you're not earning Honor or Conquest to purchase gear any more, how will your equipment contribute to your character's strength in PvP? The answer is... it won't (much).In Legion, as soon as you zone into a PvP instance, the stats on your gear will be nullified, and you'll be given a pre-determined set of stats that's uniquely configured for your specialization. Furthermore, any set bonuses, enchants, Legendary bonuses, or trinket effects will be deactivated (although your Artifact and its related Artifact Powers will remain active). The only contribution your gear will make to your overall power is through a small modifier based on your average item level. For every point that your average item level increases, your pre-determined PvP stats will increase by 0.1%. That means a 25 item level difference between two players only results in a 2.5% difference in stats, compared to the 25% difference it makes today. There’s still a little incentive to improve your gear – a concept we think is important for World of Warcraft – but the benefits are much less pronounced. These changes bring a couple of major advantages. First of all, it puts everyone participating in organized PvP on a much more even playing field. Obviously, you'll still want to unlock your Honor Talents to reach your full potential, but you'll be able to hold your own in battle in the meantime.Second, it allows us infinitely more control to make PvP-specific balance tweaks. If one spec's Mastery is too strong in PvP, that's fine – we can just reduce the amount of Mastery they have. If a spec is too easy to kill, we can increase their Stamina. If a healer is having too much trouble keeping teammates alive, we can increase their Spellpower. In short, we can tune classes for PvP in a way that’s exclusively focused on PvP. Equipping For Battle Even though your gear has very little impact on the strength of your character in instanced PvP, and you won't be spending Honor or Conquest to buy gear from vendors, we still want you to be able to earn gear through PvP. We really like how the Strongbox system has worked out so far in Random Battlegrounds and Skirmishes, and so we're working on a similar system for Legion, with some major improvements.In Legion, you’ll earn gear simply by completing Battlegrounds or Arenas. In rated matches, the quality of the gear will be increased based on your rating. Of course, that's in addition to the Honor you'll earn towards unlocking your Honor Talents.We're also doing away with the idea of PvP-specific gear. Since your stats are pre-determined, trinkets and set bonuses are disabled, and your item level gives only a small increase, we don't need to worry about making you wear a separate set of gear in PvP. So, in Legion, gear is gear, regardless of where you earned it, with no PvP-specific stats or fluctuating item levels, and the best players in both PvP and PvE content will be able to earn the best gear. 'Tis The Season Legion is also bringing several changes to how PvP seasons, as well as their rewards, will work. Over the years, we've seen the high-end PvP community tend to flock to one faction over the other, even if it's not the faction they'd prefer. Racial balance is an important part of that, but we also think many players tend to simply choose the faction where they feel the best players are.So, in Legion, we'll be handing out end-of-season PvP awards separately to the top percentages of players in each faction, instead of in relation to the overall player base. That means that, even if you believe one faction to have an advantage over the other, you can still play the one you want to, without having to worry about losing your shot at Gladiator.On top of that, we're planning to have more frequent, shorter PvP seasons. Since your Honor Level doesn't reset between seasons, and the effectiveness of gear has been greatly diminished, you'll be able to start competing at near-maximum potential immediately, instead of having to wait several weeks while you collect a new set of gear. That means we can have more PvP seasons, which means rewards can be handed out more regularly. All For The Prestige However, once you've reached Honor Level 50, you'll have a tough choice to make. You'll be given the option to Prestige, which will reset your Honor Level back to 1, and once again restricting access to higher-level Honor Talents. However, in return, you'll increase your Prestige Level, which grants access to a number of other rewards, including:

A badge, based on your Prestige Level, which appears on the scoreboard in Battlegrounds and Arenas, as well as on your nameplate and unit frame.

A title, also based on your Prestige Level.

A wearable faction pennant

A new appearance for your Artifact

A unique mount and pet

The higher your Prestige Level, the better rewards you'll have access to. We see the Prestige system as a great way for players who aren't interested in pursuing higher rating, but still enjoy PvP, to have their own unique rewards to chase after. A Change of Scenery There's one more exciting addition we’d like to share today: Legion is bringing two brand-new maps to the Arena.Located in the fortress of Black Rook Hold, this arena features a large statue in the center, as well as three alcoves to the sides. Access to those alcoves is restricted by a series of gates, which will open and close randomly as the match continues. When the gates are closed, you can use them to hide out of line of sight of your opponents… just be prepared for them to open again moments later!Also in development is another arena located in the forests of Val’sharah. When you first enter this arena, you’ll be encased in a dome of vines. When the match starts, those vines will retreat, leaving the starting area exposed to the rest of the arena. In the center, you’ll find three statues, which can be used to break line of sight. However, those statues are located very close to each other, so you’ll need to keep moving if you want to play defensively.We're very excited about all of the improvements coming to PvP in World of Warcraft: Legion, and we hope you are too! We look forward to seeing you on the fields of battle.

PvP Models

Below are some of the armor sets from Legion PvP.

Rogue and Warlock in Dressing Room

Rogue and Warlock PvP sets can be previewed in our Legion Dressing Room. When adding gear, type in "Vindictive Gladiator's Leather" or "Vindictive Gladiator's Felweave" to have the Alliance, Horde, and Elite sets appear. You can also add a Legion PvP mount by selecting the "Choose Mount" option and searching for "Prestigious."

Comentarios

Comentario de SwiftHunter

on 2015-12-16T15:32:32-06:00

This looks very promising for pvp. Hope it all turns out well and I can get back to enjoy pvp again.

Comentario de mathiaslindberg

on 2015-12-16T15:35:02-06:00

New arenas! Would've liked a new battleground more though, since that's more casual, but I can see why they would do arenas. It would just be nice to see something like Warsong Gulch, exactly the same layout, but set on the Broken Isles with all new models. It could just be terrain, existing textures and existing models.

Comentario de Lolia

on 2015-12-16T15:45:19-06:00

Exciting!

I always disliked how gear played a huge part. Things actually sound balanced and now even more based on players skill.

Also, looks like Dwarf Females might be played more now :P

Comentario de TheOldBear

on 2015-12-16T16:40:25-06:00

Scary horse and scary wolf are scary D:

Comentario de Lelena

on 2015-12-16T17:50:43-06:00

But what about older pvp gear? Will it be sold for gold?

Comentario de Elcleri

on 2015-12-16T18:14:49-06:00

Amazing. I love the idea that you can earn PVP rewards without the need of doing rated arenas/bgs.That wolf and that horse are awesome, please let them be part of the prestige system.

Sorry for my English.

Comentario de MidnightRikali

on 2015-12-16T18:29:14-06:00

Oooo! I like the dark shades for the new mounts! :) Really looking forward to the PvP changes in hopes I might have a chance to really give it a go during Legion. Always got more discouraged when trying before cause PvP always felt so unbalanced. Here's hoping!

Comentario de Medyzz

on 2015-12-16T20:12:46-06:00

I love you for previewing new arenas and I hope for some new BG's and at least one Rated BG (my xmass wish lol!)

but I still find one thing unanswered in this beautiful post.. And that is how will we obtain Elite PvP Gear. Will it have a 2k+ rating requirement or something like that? Vindictive normal gear is ilvl 840 and elite 870 so thats already a nice 3% damage increase against all players that only have the normal gear.

Comentario de Medyzz

on 2015-12-16T20:27:50-06:00

Also, the fact that set bonuses won't work in PvP doesn't worry me a lot since I dont even see any on PvP gear - but is there a possibility to keep enchants working in PvP? (btw by disabling trinkets I hope they mean the active part of it, not the secondary stats). I thought that legion would make proffesions more interesting again even from the PvPe'rs point of view. I'm kind of dissapointed to see enchants disabled, but disabling the legendary bonuses is of course a confirmed good step to make pvp less confusing. Pre-determined template for all specs includes even secondary stats since I cant see any secondary stats on PvP gear, right? Seems a little disrupting that I'm going to have a pre-determined template from blizzard including my crit stats as a fire mage when crit is so important to us (=cant stack crit at all:-//).. but I guess its too early for conclusions.

P.S: Anybody has an anwser why deepfreeze got removed?:O Pretty much all classes have several stuns, I dont understand why deep can't be a baseline spell for all mages. /cry

Comentario de Uuneya

on 2015-12-16T21:10:09-06:00

Amazing. I love the idea that you can earn PVP rewards without the need of doing rated arenas/bgs.That wolf and that horse are awesome, please let them be part of the prestige system.

Sorry for my English.

Your English is excellent, until the last line of your post I assumed you were a native speaker!

Comentario de Vizaerius

on 2015-12-16T23:30:33-06:00

What is going to happen to the mounts that are purchasable with Honor Points?

Comentario de valteira

on 2015-12-17T03:08:13-06:00

Wow pvp just went full call of duty.

I guess it's okay.

Comentario de Smokingxaces

on 2015-12-17T04:25:15-06:00

Excited to try this out :D

Comentario de Vagiulis

on 2015-12-17T05:50:23-06:00

At long last, it seems PvP is back on the menu!

Edit: I'm wondering if Legion PvP will be what Vanillla PvP could have been if it was more well thought. I can't believe I might be returning to PvP again. Excitement!

Comentario de Interest

on 2015-12-17T07:02:45-06:00

Wow pvp just went full call of duty.

I guess it's okay.

Well it does make sense, all things considered.

Comentario de Dragonx09

on 2015-12-17T07:36:14-06:00

so all these areana and rbg boosting services are gonna make more money in legion as people always want the best @#$% for as little effort as possible

Comentario de Megabucks

on 2015-12-17T07:57:53-06:00

Sucks for crappy pvp people like me who depend on outgearing people in low mmr. XD

Comentario de Zenjiko

on 2015-12-17T07:58:19-06:00

PvP stats should be flat, and gear rewards cosmetic. Let it all fall down to skill-level (and class balance).

Comentario de Ruiru

on 2015-12-17T08:39:27-06:00

A unique mount and pet

The only line that makes me somewhat annoyed. I don't mind that there's a special mount in there but I want to gather as many pets as I can and PvP is the one aspect of the game I enjoy less than archeology.

Comentario de simpetar

on 2015-12-17T08:52:42-06:00

But what about older pvp gear? Will it be sold for gold?

Most likely. You can see that everywhere: gear that could be bought at first for badges/tokens was then available for JP and then for gold. I guess the same awaits legacy honor gear.